Resilience Innovator Type Assessment: What Is It?
A crash course in our latest offering, the Resilience Innovator Type Assessment?
What 20 Years of Resilience & Innovation Research Tells Us
Are resilience and innovation linked? And how can we measure them? Find out what we learned from our research to create the Resilience Innovator Type Assessment.
Burnout in Emergency Management: How Can We Save Ourselves?
Originally written for the Disasterology Blog, this piece on the particular challenges that EMs face when going through burnout shares useful tips on re-engaging with yourself, your team, and the work you do.
SMEM 101: How to Succeed with Limited Resources
If you’re in emergency management, then you know all about the importance of utilizing social media in moments of crisis. And while platforms are plenty (and the majority are free), using social media can be tricky, especially if you’ve got limited resources. We’ve got some quick, easy, and proven tips to help you and your agency’s SMEM succeed so that you can continue keeping your communities safe.
Training, Testing, & Exercising Best Practices for Resilience Innovators
It’s not always easy to figure out your Training & Exercise programs. What exercises do your teams really need to run? What if you have limited resources? How do you identify training gaps in your teams?
Coaching: A Case for Coaching for Resilience Innovators from Shawn Gerard
Coaching means different things to different people. As an athlete, coaching meant having a more experienced third party to guide my actions in the face of adversity. That seems like a fair definition of coaching.
Sharing Research in Seven Minutes or Less
Distilling the hours of research I did with the Visionary Program into a 7-minute talk format was not hard (I had to do it in 5 for IAEM). What was hard was constructing a compelling story while communicating all the vital parts of the program I was proposing.
Giving TED-Style Talks When You’ve Never Given One Before
It takes a lot to “put yourself out there” and present a unique idea. When I decided to present “The Future is Experiential…” at the CEMA conference, I knew I had value to add to the larger conversation at the event, but that didn’t make it any less nerve-wracking.
Coaching: Resilience in Art and Emergency Management from Nia D’Emilio
Providing technical advice is, of course, a key element to coaching. But none of it really matters–or ever really sticks–if you don’t build a relationship with that coach.
Coaching: An Army Perspective from SFC. Kitty Doenges
A new year is exciting for a LOT of reasons. Most exciting to me is that a new year means new books! Whether that means new to you or new to the world, a fresh start to a year means a new to-be-read list.
